Touhou Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touhou_ProjectOne guy, 15 games, something of a legend
Streaming Spotify from OS X to XBMC on a Raspberry Pi using Soundflower, LadioCast, and Icecast - Daggerfist
http://blog.bywires.com/articles/using-software/streaming-spotify-from-os-x-to-xbmc-on-a-raspberry-pi-using-soundflower-ladiocast-and-icecast/This works, but it doesn't uplift me
http://sandrasenese.com/how-to-make-the-best-egyptian-vegetarian-dish-koshari
http://sandrasenese.com/how-to-make-the-best-egyptian-vegetarian-dish-koshariFood. Worth a try.
OSC — It's Log! It's Log! It's Big, It's Hyper, It's Good!
http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2015/02/04/its-log-its-log-its-big-its-hyper-its-good/Hyperloglog algorithm
https://github.com/robertsdionne/neural-network-papers
https://github.com/robertsdionne/neural-network-papersCurated list of neutral network papers via /r/machinelearning
Scientists discover the world contains dramatically more trees than was thought
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/09/02/scientists-discover-that-the-world-contains-dramatically-more-trees-than-previously-thought/Great title.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/08/unsupervised-learning-attention-and-other-mysteries.html
http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/08/unsupervised-learning-attention-and-other-mysteries.html2015-08-30 19:33:08
Debugging OSX airport wifi connection - Super User
https://superuser.com/questions/585473/debugging-osx-airport-wifi-connection/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport - magic hidden equivalent to "iw" on linux
QARK: Discovering Security Holes in Android Apps
http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/08/qark2015-08-30 02:37:31
How to Compute the Derivative of a Sigmoid Function (fully worked example) | kawahara.ca
http://kawahara.ca/how-to-compute-the-derivative-of-a-sigmoid-function-fully-worked-example/"This part is not intuitive". Yep, it wasn't!
Linux Containers - CGManager - Getting started
https://linuxcontainers.org/cgmanager/getting-started/LXC, required magic to put you in your own cgroup (which some versions of systemd should, but don't, do)
The Power of Power Cycling
http://growthalytics.com/troubleshooting/programming/2015/08/21/the-power-of-power-cycling/nonbeard 2015-08-24 06:00:02
http://openafm.com
http://openafm.comOpen hardware atomic force microscope
r/K selection theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-selection#r-selectionnonbeard 2015-08-21 20:01:04
Installing Nvidia Drivers and CUDA 7.0 in Debian Wheezy | Yohan Jasdid's
http://yohan.jasdid.com/2015/03/installing-nvidia-drivers-and-cuda-7-0-in-debian-wheezy/nonbeard 2015-08-21 15:14:40
Why Functional Tests don’t belong in a Build Environment - A Practitioner's Guide to Successful Software Testing, Part 2 « mgm technology blog
http://blog.mgm-tp.com/2011/02/successful-software-testing-part2/I disagree with pretty much all of this. Objection: You can't do manual tests, such as typing or clicking a button, if your tests are done in your build environment. Response: Well duh, don't have manual tests. Objection: The build / test machine will have a different configuration from the live environment. Response: So will any machine you do testing on, unless you test on production. Eliminate the problematic differences. Objection: When the test fails, you can't debug it. Response: On the other hand you get tests running continuously. When a test fails, reproduce it on your own system and debug it there.
Kasuto.net: The Legend of Zelda
http://www.kasuto.net/zelda1.php?main=zelda1/z1q2walkthru.htmlMuch better second quest walkthrough
The Bell Miner: orthography and ornithology catalyse a folk etymology
http://www.cjvlang.com/Spicks/bellminer.htmlPretty interesting. I know this bird as the Bellbird.
Zelda Universe
http://www.zelda.com/universe/game/zelda/walk.jspWalkthrough for The Adventure of Zelda's second quest.
Should search algorithms be moral? A conversation with Google’s in-house philosopher - Quartz
http://qz.com/451051/should-search-algorithms-be-moral-a-conversation-with-googles-in-house-philosopher/Really bizarre quotes from Floridi here. "Google should not be in charge of what is true today or what is true tomorrow." (Made in support of the status quo, yet the status quo obviously is that Google is in charge of what is true today, in some sense). "Controlling the truth value of what is being circulated, information quality [...] Absolutely, it should be something that gets checked."
An experiment in porting the Android init system to GNU/Linux
http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/08/05/0-androidinit/Completely useless, even from the outset, but a great coverage of Android boot.
Make bash use external `time` command rather than shell built-in - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/86266/make-bash-use-external-time-command-rather-than-shell-built-in/86269#86269"enable -n" disables bash built-ins, but 'time' is not a built-in: it's a separate bit of magic which requires a separate thing to disable. Shells are insane. The whole concept of a shell is really outdated and 70s.
Five Geek Social Fallacies
http://plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.htmlGeek Social Fallacy #0, which this guy has curiously forgotten to mention: Geeks Think They Are Special. Geeks tend to think that their social groups differ in material ways from other kinds of social group, despite there being no evidence for this.
Miscomputation: Learning to live with errors
http://tomasp.net/blog/2015/failures/index.htmlNice summary
The Brain vs Deep Learning Part I: Computational Complexity — Or Why the Singularity Is Nowhere Near | Deep Learning
https://timdettmers.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/brain-vs-deep-learning-singularity/nonbeard 2015-07-27 13:16:54
Hacking Team: a zero-day market case study
https://tsyrklevich.net/2015/07/22/hacking-team-0day-market/nonbeard 2015-07-27 00:48:43
The Relativistic Rocket
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/rocket.html"After only a few years of 1g acceleration even the cosmic background radiation is Doppler shifted into a lethal heat bath hot enough to melt all known materials." Fuck's sake
PLOS ONE: Rethinking Rice Preparation for Highly Efficient Removal of Inorganic Arsenic Using Percolating Cooking Water
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0131608Yay! My method of cooking rice gets rid of arsenic. "Traditional S.E. Asian methods of rice cooking involved extensive rinsing of the uncooked grain followed by cooking the rice in a large excess of water and discarding that water on cessation of cooking and this was found to reduce Asi content of food by up to 45% [10] and 57% [8] when Asi free water was used."
Overton window - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_windowThe Overton Window is a phrase used to refer to the range of ideas the public will accept. It is used by media pundits and particularly favoured in conservative and libertarian-leaning discourse.
DSN Now
https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.htmlDeep Space Network dishes: what they're currently doing
Nuptial flight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuptial_flight#Flying_ant_day"In October 2009, a swarm of flying ants briefly disrupted play between innings at cricket matches during the ICC Champions trophy, in South Africa."
Caryl Churchill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryl_ChurchillRobyn's recommended playwright
Ophiocoma wendtii - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocoma_wendtiiIn addition to functioning as an armor and giving structural support, the [calcite] crystals [on its arms] make up its unique visual systems. They minimize spherical aberration and can detect the direction of incoming light. The lenses work by filtering and focusing light on an underlying photoreceptor system. Nerve bundles under each lens, presumed to be light-sensitive, transmit the optical information to the rest of the nervous system.
The Sixth Sense You Didn't Know You Had - The Crux
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/07/01/sixth-sense/#.VZRESKbTHKMHow to see polarisation
Legendary Viking Sunstone Navigation: Solved : Discovery News
http://news.discovery.com/earth/navigating-by-sunstone-and-a-sixth-sense.htmSuper cool: humans can detect the direction of polarised light, but the effect is filtered out normally.
How Can There Still Be a Sex Difference, Even When There Is No Sex Difference? | Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-how-and-why-sex-differences/201101/how-can-there-still-be-sex-difference-even-when-there-isFascinating -- I didn't know that female brains were composed of distinct cells, some with mother's X and some with father's X
An Education Centre for Sustainable Living - Monkton Wyld Court
http://monktonwyldcourt.co.uk/recommendation from colette
My DIY Underlit LED (Hikaru) Skirt - Album on Imgur
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9838262"Compared to China the female Maker scene in the West seems incredibly conservative and hostile to women who don't conform to the blue hair and tattoos, zero-risk-non-conformist look:-) Eccentric clothing and body-modification is ok- but only if it's the same kind they have. Because if we look sexy the evil men will never take us seriously LOL." Really interesting comment -- wonder if it says something about attitudes to women in China vs the west, or if it says more about this woman's personal attitude.
Simple guided fuzzing for libraries using LLVM's new libFuzzer
http://www.reddit.com/r/reverseengineering/comments/3bzr9q/_/Fuzzer as part of the llvm project
Writing a Mac OSX USB Device Driver That Implements SCSI Pass-through - Tenerife Skunkworks
http://wagerlabs.com/blog/2008/02/04/writing-a-mac-osx-usb-device-driver-that-implements-scsi-pass-through/Apple very annoyingly doesn't let you send vendor-specific SCSI commands to any mass storage device from user space. You have to write a kernel driver. Laaaaaame! Linux lets you do what you like.
Groyne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groyne"All of a groyne may be under water, in which case it is a submerged groyne."
> But because our mosquito is oh-so-light, the raindrop moves on, unimpeded, and... | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9776341Possible blog post? HNer complains that a sentence misuses terms from physics. Terms are actually being applied correctly and problem is that HNer hasn't understood the English sentence.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences - Abstract - Homing in on Consciousness in the Nervous System: An Action-Based Synthesis
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9795408&fileId=S0140525X15000643Looks interesting, not on libgen yet. 10.1017/S0140525X15000643
Liar's dice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar's_dicenonbeard 2015-06-17 13:23:17
Becoming a contractor programmer in the UK | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9726182Bunch of people in the comments saying that the previously-saved link is rubbish (but they give evidence, so it's not completely useless)
switching-to-contracting-uk/README.md at master · tadast/switching-to-contracting-uk
https://github.com/tadast/switching-to-contracting-uk/blob/master/README.mdUse offline and online social networks, not recruiters.
easy brown lentils
http://www.culinaryhill.com/easy-brown-lentilsVery simple recipe
Open-sourcing Facebook Infer: Identify bugs before you ship | Engineering Blog | Facebook Code | Facebook
https://code.facebook.com/posts/1648953042007882nonbeard 2015-06-11 17:55:02
Why I’m Breaking Up With the Apple Watch - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/fashion/why-im-breaking-up-with-the-apple-watch.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0This is a good talking piece for my watch.
Reverse engineering flash memory for fun and benefit
https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-14/materials/us-14-Oh-Reverse-Engineering-Flash-Memory-For-Fun-And-Benefit-WP.pdfnonbeard 2015-05-27 23:22:17